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He looks like the kind of president that filmmaker Aaron Sorkin would conjure up in the ’90s. In fact, there is a solid resemblance between Sorkin’s Andrew Shepherd, played by Michael Douglas in 1995’s award-winning The American President, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who really, really wants to be the 48th president of the United States.